{"id":820,"date":"2022-07-01T06:12:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T06:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/niantics-campfire-social-ar-app-rolls-out-for-pokemon-go-players\/"},"modified":"2022-07-01T06:12:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T06:12:45","slug":"niantics-campfire-social-ar-app-rolls-out-for-pokemon-go-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/niantics-campfire-social-ar-app-rolls-out-for-pokemon-go-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Niantic’s Campfire social AR app rolls out for ‘Pok\u00e9mon Go’ players"},"content":{"rendered":"
with Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/em>, Niantic became the poster child for the power of mobile augmented reality (AR) apps. Since then, the company has struggled to recapture that glory. Yesterday’s round of layoffs and canceled projects cemented how difficult things are for Niantic, driven by the pandemic that has made it tough for people to get outside and gather in groups. But it turns out there’s another way for Niantic to double down on its AR lead: By making it easier for its existing players to communicate with each other.<\/p>\n Today, the company has begun rolling out Campfire, a social app that will let Niantic’s users chat with their friends, join groups of like-minded mobile wanders, and arrange major events like Pok\u00e9mon Go’s<\/em> raids Up until now, Pok\u00e9-<\/em>addicts have used Discord and other messaging apps to arrange their gatherings. But, likely seeing a missed opportunity, Niantic has developed its own social platform, one that’ll be accessible across all of its titles (including Ingress, its first major release).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Campfire is about more than just messaging, though. It also gives players a broader glimpse at everything the company’s games have to offer. Of Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/em>, for example, it can show you that there’s a Venusaur hanging out on the other side of town, a far wider view than you’d typically get in the game’s main app. You can also light a flare on specific events, which alerts other local players that you’d like some help tackling it. And, as you’d expect, Campfire also makes it easier to coordinate your friends, like quickly being able to DM your friends if there’s a Snorlax you want to take on.